The editors of PLOS Medicine, together with guest editors Lars Åke Persson, Kathleen M. Rasmussen and Huixia Yang, announce a forthcoming Special…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Maternal and Child Health & NutritionRead more
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Editorial Better medicine through machine learning: What’s real, and what’s artificial?Read more
Note: This Editorial is appearing in Speaking of Medicine ahead of print. The final version will appear in PLOS Medicine at the…
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Conference news Report from the 2018 APHA Meeting, Part 2: Approaches to Reducing Gun ViolenceRead more
In part two of a two-part series from the 2018 meeting of the American Public Health Association, PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl reports from…
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Conference news Report from the 2018 APHA meeting, Part 1: Research on Racial Disparities in Gun ViolenceRead more
In part one of a two-part series from the 2018 meeting of the American Public Health Association, PLOS Medicine Chief Editor Larry Peiperl discusses new…
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General Interpreting chest x-rays and predicting severe nearsightedness: Launching our Special Issue on Machine Learning in Health and BiomedicineRead more
Associate Editor Linda Nevin discusses highlights from the first week of the PLOS Medicine’s Machine Learning in Health and Biomedicine Special Issue This…
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General Inexcusable Excuses: Reluctance to Quickly Improve MDR-TB TreatmentRead more
It’s time to stop making excuses and start taking action and implement the new WHO guidance for treating MDR-TB, argue Helena Huerga…
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General Combatting MDR-TB: Bringing a Knife to a GunfightRead more
Animesh Sinha, a physician with Médecins Sans Frontières, describes how bedaquiline and delamanid changed the game for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and stresses…
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General Community ART groups: bringing HIV treatment closer to patient’s homes and to communities in conflictRead more
Charles Ssonko of Médecins sans Frontières describes the role of community groups in maintaining access to antiretroviral drugs for patients in Central…
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General Mobilizing the Research Community for TB – The Time Is NowRead more
Els Torreele, the Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Access Campaign, suggests ways world leaders can use this week’s first ever…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: New Tools and Strategies for Tuberculosis Diagnosis, Care, and EliminationRead more
We’ve extended the submission deadline! The new deadline for research submissions is November 16th. The editors of PLOS Medicine together with guest…
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Big Food The Sickness Lurking Beneath World Cup FeverRead more
While watching the World Cup, Dean Schillinger was reminded of the ongoing back-and-forth matchup between the soda industry and public health advocates. Last…
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Collections Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo endsRead more
PLOS will no longer actively triage Ebola content for expedited review, but will continue to update the Ebola Channel with new content…